Re: names (was: manipulative cats)

[Guest guest]

When I was in 6th grade the boys who hated me decided to call me Camay.

Like the soap.

I cringe when I think of it. I can hardly say the word. I told my son about it

and

he called me that, just once. I gave him one of my famous hard glares and

told him never to do it again.

Usually, if people are going to misguess my name it comes out something

funny like Carmel or Carlotta.

The autistic young man from the bus, I mentioned in one of my autispotting

posts, the one in the cape. I finally got to talk to him again. I still think

he is on

the spectrum. He interviews people on the bus in order to take his mind off of

his motion sickness. He asks them all kinds of questions. I just happened to

be his " victim " the first time I met him. I wanted his name and so after we

got

off the bus, instead of disappearing without a backwards glance, he stopped

to say something to me and we walked together for a bit since we were going

the same direction. I asked his name and then I told him mine. He said he

wouldn't remember it. I said, you could link it to Chameleon or Camellia. He

said, it wouldn't work because in his head I was already " apartment manager

lady carrying big canvas " (these were features of our first conversation) I

said,

well, you can call me " canvas lady " , I won't mind.

The next day he remembered my name. That was nice. I remembered his

because it is the name of one of my brothers. He cut his hair, the pretty curls

were gone.

He said that he had been interested in Biology, but realized that biology

wasn't going to work for him because he lost points on a test for spelling

" acshelminthes " wrong. I thought to myself, " he's pronouncing it wrong...it's

Ash-hel-MIN-these, not Ash-HEL-min-these " He's a statistics major.

Camille

> >Jane you have to tell me if you don't like to read your name.

>

> No, I don't mind reading my name. What I do (irrationally)

> mind is when people accidentally change my name to Jan.

> Don't like being referred to as Joan or June, either, but

> for some (irrational) reason, Jan is the one I hate most.

>

> Jane

[Guest guest]

At 05:26 PM 2/28/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>Camille wrote:

> >Jane you have to tell me if you don't like to read your name.

>

>No, I don't mind reading my name. What I do (irrationally)

>mind is when people accidentally change my name to Jan.

>Don't like being referred to as Joan or June, either, but

>for some (irrational) reason, Jan is the one I hate most.

>

>Jane

How bout " Gane "

-jypsy

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[Guest guest]

I wrote:

>>No, I don't mind reading my name. What I do (irrationally)

>>mind is when people accidentally change my name to Jan.

>>Don't like being referred to as Joan or June, either, but

>>for some (irrational) reason, Jan is the one I hate most.

and Jypsy responded:

>How bout " Gane "

:-) When I was in Nicaragua (for three weeks), the people

in whose house I was living called me " YAH-nay. " But that

was because Spanish is so much more consistent than English.

The way a word is spelled is the way it is pronounced.

J is usually aspirated (if that is the correct term), like

the " ho " in Santa's ho-ho-ho but with a breath added rather

like the German " ach " (as in " Ach du lieber! " ). In an effort

to " anglecize " their pronunciation of my name, the family

did their best to produce their version of an English J

sound, which turned out to be like the English Y sound.

(Which definitely is part of the English J sound, in a

way, I think.) In Spanish, an e at the end of a word is

always pronounced. Hence: YAH-nay.

Jane

[Guest guest]

Hey if we call her Gane then if she ever gets arrested for civil disobedience

again we can say that Gane is in gaol. :-)

I hope we never have to say that, though.

> >

> >Jane

>

> How bout " Gane "

>

> -jypsy